Re: Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:52:36 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

[Seymour] only did fast and simple, starting before the CDC 6600.....

And he didn’t seem to have much truck with “memory management” and “operating systems”, did he? He probably saw them as just getting in the way of sheer speed.

Base and bounds was good enough for numerical programs.
On the other hands, NOS did things no other OS did.....

And he didn’t care for some of the niceties of floating-point arithmetic either, for the same reason.

Heck, FP arithmetic is only approximate anyway--it is just more
approximate on my machines.....